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The Guitar Song aims even higher, with 25 tracks that take the pulse of a country hitting the skids and a country singer hitting the big time." [12] Dan MacIntosh with Roughstock gave it a perfect rating, commenting "At two full CDs long, The Guitar Song is not a full plate of music; it's an overflowing one. The good news is it's mainly ...
Donald Eugene Gibson (April 3, 1928 [1] – November 17, 2003) was an American songwriter and country musician.A Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Gibson wrote such country standards as "Sweet Dreams" and "I Can't Stop Loving You", and enjoyed a string of country hits ("Oh Lonesome Me") from 1957 into the mid-1970s.
Blues seven chords add to the harmonic chord a note with a frequency in a 7:4 ratio to the fundamental note. At a 7:4 ratio, it is not close to any interval on the conventional Western diatonic scale. [32] For convenience or by necessity it is often approximated by a minor seventh interval or a dominant seventh chord. A minor pentatonic scale ...
The song commits to the structure of traditional 12-bar blues, a three-chord format in which the first line of each verse is repeated and then answered. [3] Dylan scholar Tony Attwood claims that the song's "point" is introduced in the first verse ("Well, today has been a sad ol’ lonesome day / Yeah, today has been a sad ol’ lonesome day / I'm just sittin’ here thinking / With my mind a ...
"That's What It's Like to Be Lonesome" is a song written and recorded by American country singer-songwriter Bill Anderson. It was released as a single in December 1958 via Decca Records and became a major hit. A similar version was released by American country artist Ray Price the same year via Columbia Records.
"Blue and Lonesome" is a blues song recorded in 1959 by Little Walter. It was released as the B-side of the "Mean Ole Frisco" single in 1965 on Checker Records. [1]In 2016 the Rolling Stones released an album of cover songs titled Blue & Lonesome, on which a cover of the song appears.
According to Colin Escott's book Hank Williams: The Biography, Hank played the song for Monroe somewhere on tour in Texas, and somehow Monroe wound up with a credit: "There were rumors that the song's notional writer, 'James B. Smith,' was a pseudonym for Hank and Bill Monroe, but it appears as though the royalties went solely to Monroe until ...
"Oh Lonesome Me" was also the highest charting, at No. 8. The album won a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the band in 1991. "Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine" is a cover of a Bill Monroe song, "Skip a Rope" a cover of a Henson Cargill song, and "Oh Lonesome Me" a cover of a Don Gibson song.